Older basketball players still driving hard

After injuring himself in a basketball tournament in Florida, David Gately was hobbling up and down the stairs of his home, eliciting snickers from his son, David Jr., one of the players he coaches at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson.
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Educators get a lesson in the digital generation

Ian Jukes spoke to more than 250 Catholic school educators from 35 schools across the Archdiocese of Baltimore Sept. 21.
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The Church and Politics

I disagree with most pundits, and perhaps, most Americans. We deserve our politicians and our laws. Candidates feed us a fictitious narrative that Washington is broken (this much is true), but the American people are exceptional. They tell us: send me to Washington, and I’ll fix it by restoring honesty,
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Tolerance a two-way street

Filmmakers rarely pay the price for the violence they incite with their movies.
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Pounding the pavement

My husband and I religiously attended Back On My Feet (BOMF) until March, a month before we got married. The final weeks of wedding planning were all-consuming. Then we went on our honeymoon. In May we started settling into married life and BOMF fell to the wayside.   Last month we
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Marylanders face critical decision on marriage

Baltimore's archbishop talks about the need to view the same-sex marriage issue in a " rational, dispassionate yet loving manner."
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Training helps intercultural understanding

Last week, one Korean community and one Chamorro/Guamanian community in the United States were told to cancel Masses in parishes where they have been worshiping. Also, a small group of 20-something Hispanic immigrants were denied a space for weekly prayer and faith formation on their parish grounds. This is hard to believe.
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J. Christopher Stevens (1960-2012)

Father Robert Leavitt reflects on the death of Christhoper Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya.
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It is good to mend friends, but you have to know how

  The sun did not shine. Skies were scary and gray. So we ran from the car On that wet yesterday. And Leo was sprinting, His Cat on his arm, When the Cat’s tie ripped off. Leo yelped with alarm. The Cat is his friend, Oh-so-special and dear, And I watched Leo’s eyes As they...
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Mercy High alumna serves abused girls locally and abroad

In May 2009, a few months after deciding to start a party-planning business catering to girls, Joanne Gallion sat on a curb at Walt Disney World in Orlando and watched girls dressed in princess costumes walk by.
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Redemptorist Father Poux remembered as ‘a solid priest’

A funeral Mass for Redemptorist Father Francis Poux will be offered Sept. 21 at noon at Stella Maris.
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Deacon Monaghan served Annapolis parish for nearly 30 years

Deacon James C. Monaghan Jr., a deacon of St. Andrew by the Bay in Annapolis for nearly 30 years, died of complications from recent surgery Sept. 14 at Laurel Regional Hospital. He was 69.
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